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Friday

4 août 1944

Normandy Campaign casualties - (cumulative) 

KIA

0

Wounded

0

Total

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Lieu de départ :

LONGRAYE

60

War Office map with kind permission of Normandy War Guide

Emplacement final :

FORET D'EVEQUE *sp

Jour J+

59

4 août 1944

Bn moved by TCV to area N of FORET D'EVEQUE*(sp) (644511) and remained at short notice to move.


This area was quiet with no enemy shelling or bombing.

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Original wartime caption: The Seaforth Highlanders make their way along the wooded country lanes to relieve the KOSBs.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205226143

Informations alternatives (tirées de livres, de témoignages personnels)

9th Infantry Brigade War Diary


0800 Bde moved out to new area and after an extremely “dusty” move re-opened in farm 637518. The intended location was reached at 1100 hrs, but combination of circumstances, mainly hygienic, resulted in the bde moving to a newer and sweeter smelling area.


1600 Armd Bde came under comd 3 Brit Inf Div. Bn localities 2 LINCOLNS 652521, 1 KOSB 645512, 2 RUR 638505.


We spent thirty-six hours in the quiet fields of Longraye, troubled only by the thick minefields laid by the enemy, and early on the 4th we moved again by transport to positions north of the Foret l'Eveque. The countryside was now becoming much more hilly and, as the Germans had made some rapid withdrawals in this area, the landscape was relatively undamaged and extremely beautiful, rather like the more wooded stretches of Tweed valley.


WIG Wilson's - A Short History of The First Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers in North-West Europe

KOSB badge on a poppy background

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KIA ce jour-là

Friday

4 août 1944

KOSB Badge on a poppy background

0

Blessé ce jour-là

Aunt Bette's Homemade Pecan Pie
Rockin’ Rocky Road Ice Cream
Tom’s Heavenly Apple Strudel
Joe’s Divine Butter Tarts
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